The United Nations recognizes Cuba's scientific potential and its efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, despite the sanctions imposed on the country.
Geneva. May 21, 2024. - UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima visited Cuba from May 6 to 9. During her visit, and in the attached article, the country's progress in HIV prevention and treatment was recognized.
Ms. Byanyima met with Cuban authorities, scientists, journalists and activists, and highlighted the country's pioneering achievements. She praised the production of COVID-19 vaccines, the country's scientific and biotechnological capabilities, and expressed optimism about the possibility of finding a definitive cure for AIDS.
Interview granted by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, to Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish professor and journalist, at the Palace of the Revolution, on May 11
(Shorthand Versions - Presidency of the Republic)
Ignacio Ramonet: President, first of all I would like to thank you very much for your kindness in granting us this interview.
This is going to be an interview of about ten questions that we are going to divide into three blocks: one block devoted to domestic policy, to the domestic situation in Cuba; a second block on the economy, essentially the economy in Cuba, obviously; and a third block on international policy.
The United States has to take Cuba, once and for all, out of the list of states allegedly sponsoring terrorism
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cuba takes part in the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge.
Geneva, May 15, 2024 - From May 13 to 24, Cuba is taking part in the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, being held at the Organization's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
This conference is the final stage of negotiations before the adoption of an international legal instrument that will aim to link, in a transparent and effective way, the global intellectual property system to international agreements on biological biodiversity.
MINREX Statement: The United States Continues to Protect Terrorists
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has learned, with deep concern, about the judgment delivered by a judge of the Court of the District of Columbia in the United States on May 1st, 2024, who acquitted Alexander Alazo Baró of the four charges he faced as a result of the terrorist attack he had perpetrated against the Cuban Embassy to the United States during the early hours of morning of April 30, 2020, claiming the insanity of the perpetrator.